PARIS—Airbus delivered 800 aircraft last year, provisionally hitting a key industrial target that only weeks ago had seemed beyond its reach as it battles to overcome supply chain problems and factory snags to meet record demand for jetliners.
The European planemaker issued an unscheduled statement to confirm the figure after its shares jumped as much as 6 percent following a Reuters report that it had hit the 800 goal subject to final auditor checks.
